Total Ankle Replacement for Treatment of End-Stage Osteoarthritis in Elderly Patients by Beat Hintermann, Markus Knupp, Lukas Zwicky, Alexej Barg

“…Total ankle replacement needs less immobilization than arthrodesis and does allow for early weight-bearing and should be considered as a treatment option of first choice in many elderly patients with end-stage osteoarthritis of the ankle, especially in elderly patients with lower expectations and physical demands.…”
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Can household energy efficiency dampen crude oil price volatility in the United States? by Ojonugwa Usman, Oktay Ozkan, Chinazaekpere Nwani, Festus Victor Bekun, Andrew Adewale Alola

“…This study unveils whether household energy efficiency lower crude oil price volatility asymmetrically in the United States using the historical and forecast dataset that spans from 1970:Q1-2040:Q1. …”
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The Assessment of Cholinesterase from the Liver of Puntius Javanicus as Detection of Metal Ions by Mohd Khalizan Sabullah, Mohd Rosni Sulaiman, Mohd Yunus Abd Shukor, Mohd Arif Syed, Nor Aripin Shamaan, Ariff Khalid, Siti Aqlima Ahmad

“…Screening of heavy metals shows that chromium, copper, and mercury strongly inhibited P. javanicus ChE by lowering the activity below 50%, while several pairwise combination of metal ions exhibited synergistic inhibiting effects on the enzyme which is greater than single exposure especially chromium, copper, and mercury. …”
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The Usefulness of Procalcitonin in the Diagnosis of Appendicitis in Children: A Pilot Study by Abu N. G. A. Khan, Abdel Sawan, Antonios Likourezos, Mark Schnellinger, Estavan Garcia

“…Prospective cohort study of children aged 5–17 years presenting to the emergency room with right lower quadrant (RLQ) tenderness and strong suspicion for acute AP. …”
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Long-Lasting Unruptured Large Intracranial Aneurysm in Bilateral Moyamoya Disease: Case Report by Eunyoung Chae, Soomin Jeong, Chan-Hyuk Lee

“…She exhibited weakness in the left upper and lower extremities and dysarthria and was taking aspirin. …”
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Adsorption of an Amphoteric Aromatic Compound (-Aminobenzoic Acid) onto Different Polymeric Adsorbents by Hai-Ling Wang, Jin-Long Chen, Quan-Xing Zhang

“…In contrast, because of its smaller micropore volume, the adsorption capacity of macroporous XAD-4 was lower than that of the hypercrosslinked adsorbents CHA-111 and NJ-99. …”
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A Novel Flip-Filtered Orthagonal Frequency Division Multiplexing-Based Visible Light Communication System: Peak-to-Average-Power Ratio Assessment and System Performance Improvement by Hayder S. R. Hujijo, Muhammad Ilyas

“…This paper introduces the non-Hermitian symmetry (NHS) Flip-F-OFDM technique to enhance bandwidth efficiency, reduce the peak–average-power ratio (PAPR), and lower system complexity. Compared to the traditional HS-based Flip-F-OFDM method, the proposed method achieves around 50% reduced system complexity and prevents the PAPR from increasing. …”
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Incremental cooperative spectrum sensing algorithm with n-out-of-K fusion rule by Xiao-ge ZHANG, Shi-bing ZHANG, Gong-an QIU

“…The algorithm divided the total relays into two subsections.The front subsection included N number of relays,and the later one included K−N number of relays.Firstly,the front N relays sensed the spectrum.If no more than m_L number of relays had detected the existing of the primary user,the global detection was that the spectrum holes existed.If more than m_H number of relays had detected the existing of the primary user,the global detection was that no spectrum holes existed.Otherwise,the later K−N number of relays continued to sense the spectrum.The global detection was that the spectrum holes existed only when there were totally over n number of relays having detected the existing of the primary user in the two sensing stages.The object function was built for minimizing the time-slot consumption by adjusting the parameters m_L,m_H and N with the limit of detection probability and false probability.Simulation results show that the proposed incremental cooperative spectrum sensing algorithm has much lower time-slot consumption than the traditional one by properly setting the parameters with high sensing performance kept.…”
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Characterization of Esthetic Orthodontic Wires Made from Glass-Fiber-Reinforced Thermoplastic Containing High-Strength, Small-Diameter Glass Fibers by Yasuhiro Tanimoto, Toshihiro Inami, Masaru Yamaguchi, Kazutaka Kasai, Norio Hirayama, Yoshio Aoki

“…Furthermore, the GFRTP wires showed color changes lower than the acceptable threshold level for color differences on immersion in coffee. …”
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Análise geossistêmica e quantificação de perda de solo da bacia do Rio Mutum-Paraná (RO) by Michel Watanabe, Fabiano Antonio de Oliveira, Dorisvalder Dias Nunes, Tatiane Emilio Checchia

“…The soil loss values due hydro erosion calculated for the refered watershed were 0.937 ton/ha year, ten times lower than the natural potential of soil loss, which indicated that the land use that was observed in this study is inadequate to the natural watershed system, whose projected future trend indicates strong scenario of…”
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Bond Behavior between BFRP Rebar and Seawater Sea Sand Concrete by Chao Wu, Bing-Chen Meng, Xianfeng Cheng, Asghar Habibnejad Korayem, Lik-Ho Tam

“…However, using fly ash to replace cement is not recommended because it would significantly reduce concrete strength leading to much lower bond at the interface between SWSSC and BFRP rebar.…”
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Reinforcement Learning–Based Ramp Metering Strategy Considering Queue Management by Yang Yang, Shixuan Yu, Fan Ding, Yu Han

“…To overcome this limitation, the proposed action replacement module utilizes the store-and-forward model to estimate a lower bound for ramp metering rates. By identifying and replacing actions that fail to meet this constraint, the strategy effectively prevents queue spillback. …”
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A Comparative Analysis of Discourse-Oriented Contexts of Prophet Noah In two Surahs of Hood and Noah Based on Van Leeuwen's Framework by Ebrahim Fallah, Sajjad Shafipoor

“…Also, the way social agents are represented by the narrative of Noah and his people has been analyzed with respect to sociological-semantic components in order to produce and convey specific ideologies in the lower layers of the text in the condition of revelation era in the two surahs of Hood and Noah. …”
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A Modified Model for Deflection Calculation of Reinforced Concrete Beam with Deformed GFRP Rebar by Minkwan Ju, Hongseob Oh, Junhyun Lim, Jongsung Sim

“…This parameter was introduced to reduce the effect of the cracked moment of inertia for the reinforced concrete member, including a lower reinforcement ratio and modulus of elasticity of the GFRP bar. …”
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Evaluation of Optical Low Coherence Reflectometry Parameters in Patients with Exfoliation Syndrome by Emrullah Beyazyıldız, Özlem Beyazyıldız, Süleyman Günaydın, Emrah Kan, Mert Şimşek, Pelin Yılmazbaş, Faruk Öztürk

“…The mean ACD, HCL, and PD values were significantly lower in EXS group than in healthy subjects (P = 0.01, P = 0.04, and P<0.001, resp.). …”
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A low switching loss GaN trench MOSFET design utilizing a triple-shield structure by Yihang Qiu, Li Wei

“…This configuration significantly lowers C gd , resulting in an ultra-low Q gd . Compared to the dual-shield MOSFET (PSGT-MOS) and the conventional trench MOSFET (TG-MOS), the BPSG-MOS achieves reductions in C gd by 81% and 98%, respectively.…”
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Low-Profile Dual-Wideband MIMO Antenna with Low ECC for LTE and Wi-Fi Applications by Gye-Taek Jeong, Sunho Choi, Kyoung-hak Lee, Woo-Su Kim

“…Additionally, the calculated ECC is in the range 0.005<ρ<0.025, which is considerably lower than the ρ<0.5 required for MIMO applications. …”
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Effect of Replacing Inorganic Copper, Zinc, and Selenium with Chelated Minerals on Productive Performance, Nutrient Utilization, Tibia Morphology, and Intestinal Histology of Growi... by Carlos A. Gaona rodríguez, Hugo Bernal Barragán, Nydia C. Vásquez aguilar, Adriana Morales Trejo, Miguel Cervantes Ramírez, Cecilia Ramírez Hernández, Humberto González Rodríguez, Emilio Olivares Sáenz, Jesús J. Hernández escareño

“…The utilization rates of Cu and Fe were lower in the OM33 group. The CTRL group presented the lowest tibial weight (P &lt; 0.05). …”
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Desalted duck egg white nanogels as Pickering stabilizers for food-grade oil-in-water emulsion by Jingyun Zhao, Xiaohan Guo, Ze Chen, Yalei Dai, Hongshan Liang, Qianchun Deng, Shugang Li, Bin Zhou

“…The results revealed that the increase of DEPN concentration could lower the droplet size, however, the size was negatively correlated with the oil phase fraction. …”
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Continuous-Time ΣΔ ADC with Implicit Variable Gain Amplifier for CMOS Image Sensor by Fang Tang, Amine Bermak, Amira Abbes, Mohieddine Amor Benammar

“…The test chip prototype is fabricated using 0.18 μm CMOS process and the measurement result shows an ADC power consumption lower than 63.5 μW under 1.4 V power supply and 50 MHz clock frequency.…”
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